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Teacher Training Class 1
Good day to you friends, it's Mark Joseph here and welcome to the Mindfulness Teacher Training. So this is the introductory video and just a little explanation of how this all came to be. Well, let's go to the beginning. My journey really started born out of anxiety, born out of panic attacks and my father unfortunately died of suicide when I was 21 years old. I was following a similar downward trajectory with my mental health after his death, and I decided not to go the chemical route, which is the route that he took, but rather to go the route of breathwork and mindfulness. As a young man, I started to explore that, and it was miraculous. I felt that I finally had control over my life, and I was wondering why did nobody else know these techniques? Why are they just prescribed medication when they could at least try and work on some of these mindful techniques—mindful movement, mindful breathing, mindful meditation, journaling, and so on? Why can we not try these first before we go on to the medication? So I practiced for a while, I went to India, I traveled throughout India, the Himalayas for one year, and then I lived in a monastery, in a temple actually, for three years—can you believe it? During that time, I was grappling with the idea of becoming a monk, but I eventually left the temple without becoming fully ordained, and I got married. But my passion for mindfulness carried on, and I realized it wasn't so much in a religious framework that I wanted to help people—it was more from a practical, scientific point of view. When I go into the ancient scriptures of mindfulness, I don't see the spirituality—I see the science. I see the ancient technology that we have at our disposal today, now validated by scientific research and neuroscientists. Throughout this program, you'll get to know all of them in their full range, supporting the growth of mindfulness. So yes, it's an incredible journey. The modules are amazing—they've been put together as my life's work that I'm sharing with you. In a way, it was an intuitive flow, but as I was going about it intuitively, I realized that I had so much research to back up what I felt inside. It's just been such an amazing process. I have taught thousands of people. I have a lot of students that are now my peers—they became their own mindfulness facilitators, gurus, whatever you call them. I don’t like to be called a guru, but it gives me the greatest joy—the greatest, greatest joy—to see people whom I've trained go on and incorporate this into their professions. Into dancing, into pottery, into their therapy, into their practice, into their physiotherapy, into everything. Into teaching children at school and stopping to do mindfulness exercises with them before the classrooms. I've seen it spread right across the world actually, through the programs that I run—corporate, professional, and so on. It’s just a remarkable time. We are in a mindful revolution, and I just couldn't be happier. So let's explore this series together. Let's have fun. Let's ask questions. Let's engage. I am at your disposal, and I am guiding you—you are leading, and I am just encouraging you. Let’s go forward into the most dynamic process that one can go through—truly life-changing. And I am not just saying that—I know it's a cliché, but whenever people do this training, that’s what I hear. Their lives just change. So welcome to the Mindfulness Teacher Training. This is where you begin.
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Class 1: Part 1
04:55
Class 1: Part 2
05:29
Class 1: Part 3
06:07
Class 1: Part 4
04:26
Class 1: Part 5
05:49
Class 1: Part 6
06:32
Class 1: Part 7
03:38
Class 1: Part 8
09:18
Coffee Practice
02:49
Breath Meditation
Keeping a Journal
06:12
Starve your Distractions and Feed Your Focus Practice
05:34
Teacher Training Class 2
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Class 2: Intro
04:50
Class 2: Part 1
10:36
Class 2: Part 2
04:00
Class 2: Part 3
08:57
Class 2: Part 4
07:04
Class 2: Part 5
07:55
Class 2: Part 6
08:01
Class 2: Part 7
04:36
Class 2: Part 8
00:00
Pre Body Scan Practice
02:25
Body Scan Practice
12:14
Mindful Eating Practice
06:31
Teacher Training Class 3
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Class 3: Introduction
03:01
Class 3: Part 1
05:17
Class 3: Part 2
11:20
Class 3: Part 3
07:42
Class 3: Part 4
05:30
Labelling Practice
Ocean Mind Practice
08:57
Sky Like Mind Practice
00:00
Non-Striving Practice
08:45
Looking & Problem Solving Practice
06:54
Teacher Training Class 4
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Class 4: Part 1
06:01
Class 4: Part 2
08:30
Class 4: Part 3
07:59
Healing of the Inner Child Practice
09:11
The ‘Nice’ Self Compassion Practice
09:53
Teacher Training Class 5
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Class 5: Part 1
08:21
Class 5: Part 2
06:55
Class 5: Part 3
03:19
Class 5: Part 4
09:53
Class 5: Part 5
05:24
Class 5: Part 6
09:28
Are You OK? Checking In Practice
08:32
Loving Kindness, EQ Meditation Practice
09:17
Empathy for Forgiveness Practice
04:05
Feed Your Emotions a Cookie Practice
05:24
Teacher Training Class 6
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Class 6: Part 1
05:51
Class 6: Part 2
09:08
Class 6: Part 3
08:38
Class 6: Part 4
05:10
How To Remain Curious Practice
07:13
Finding Your Values Practice
14:10
Bonus Video: Self-Investigation by Jon Kabat-Zinn
02:08
Bonus Video: Teach Back Advice
13:45
Mindfulness 8-Week Course

Mindful Revolution. The Mindful Revolution. Incredibly powerful words.

I remember, I think it was 2014, I came across this magazine, Time magazine, on the front cover it had a picture of a pretty lady with her eyes closed in meditation. Actually, I think she was sitting in the desert. Some of these images of people practicing meditation are quite ridiculous—on top of mountains, never mind that the ants are busy eating them alive.

It’s just not conducive. But anyway, it became very fashionable to meditate. And I remember seeing this Time magazine, it said “The Mindful Revolution,” and it was all about how mindfulness is spreading throughout the world.

And it was so amazing because about a decade before, I came out of the temple and I wanted to carry on facilitating and teaching mindfulness. The wave of research and science that had now gotten behind mindfulness was just astounding. Coming out of the universities—Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, just to name a few.

Some of the leading neuroscience researchers like Richard Davidson, Sarah Lazar, and Ellen Langer from Harvard were talking about mindfulness. And you will get to know some of these names going forward. But it was just incredible, talking about the Mindful Revolution.

And it was super exciting for me. I never thought I could build a career out of teaching people how to do nothing. Well, it’s not as easy as that. It’s teaching people how to be mindful. And through the process, I learn all the time as well.

When I grew up, there was nothing about mindfulness. It was a foreign concept. It was something that the Asians did or traditional tribal people would dabble in. But it was not something that we would do for our mental health or our physical health.

If I can compare it to the 1940s—if you said that you were going for a run, people would say, “Who are you running from?” People just didn’t go for runs. Running became popular as a sport, as a way to keep fit. And then people started running, and the front page of magazines featured it. Cycling, yoga studios started springing up everywhere.

All of a sudden, exercise became really popular. There were exercise videos in the 80s, and people were doing aerobics and developing new ideas around exercise. That was astounding. That was a physical revolution.

I’m sure at some stage, there was a dental revolution, where someone discovered a toothbrush or made one, put soap on it, and stuck it in their mouth. And that’s how they figured out that doing that was good for their teeth.

And our parents just taught us this habit with no argument. Even in the 1980s, I remember my father smoking everywhere—in the house, in the car, on the airplane. Then smoking laws came in, and you couldn’t smoke everywhere.

Now, if you want a cigarette, you have to walk far away from any other human being and smoke on your own. That was also another health revolution. There have been so many, but nothing around mental health.

Now we are in the mindful revolution, where finally, we are focusing on mental wellness. The focus has been on mental illness, but not on mental wellness. And we all have mental health.

We are all mental. Yes, you’re mental and you’re physical. We are all physical. We are physical and we are mental. And because of that, we can work on our mental health. And that is a revolutionary idea.

It’s an idea that I’m sure a lot of pharmaceutical companies don’t really want you to know, because then it means you can’t sell mindfulness. You can’t make a lot of money out of mindfulness, but you can make a lot of money out of selling tablets.

So it’s just amazing that we are waking up to the idea that we can train our brain, we can train our mind to be happier, to be more resilient, to let go of stress, to be more creative, to build our emotional intelligence, to encourage wisdom, and then have the vision to make our goals and dreams manifest.

And this is all through a process of mindfulness. We’re living in the best time ever—the Mindful Revolution.

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